Remember the Talking Book Player caters to a lot more then mobile device
toting patrons. The cassette player we used to have was a tank compared
to Walkmans and the like. I'm OK with the design of the current player,
and I'm glad they put ease of use and durability at the top of the
So, some step beyond that entry in your ~/.bashrc is mucking things up.
Your assignment is to find out what's mucking things up, and to fix it.
There's no way we can help you from this kind of general statement
because it's far too short of specifics.
Linux for blind general discussion writes:
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Yeah, this has gotten quite far from the original topic. Does anyone
know if NLS, APH, Perkins, or any of the other organizations dealing
in alternative formats have their own mailing lists or even just
newsletters? My gmail is mewtamer if anyone wishes to forward me
information on such off list.
If we need to continue this conversation, I should just get your e-mail address
so we don't clutter this listserv.
Daisy books typically encode their audio in MP3 at bitrates of 32 kbps or
higher. FLAC probably averages around 300 kbps (I haven't checked this lately)
for monophonic audio.
NLS
I'm one of those who like the big buttons and the decent speaker of the
NLS digital player, but you make a good point about the value of a
device you can put in your pocket.
Al
On 09/11/2017 08:22 PM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
My apologies if it sounded like I was
You don't necessarily need a cart slot.
the stream uses a SD card and internal flash memory,
phones use there own internal memory.
Some of them also use sd cards as well.
Commercial devices like phones get there key to play books when the user
logs into the service.
the stream gets its key when
I'll admit part of the problem is ignorance. Until reading the
description for the cartridges Perkins is selling on Amazon, I didn't
know any cartridge players other than the NLS player existed, and
those descriptions only name drop two players I didn't know about and
warns one doesn't support
